Trying to run an sbt command in a freshly installed Scala environment I've got the following error:
Turns out it was an incompatibility error due to my Java 8 environment:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24197836/compilation-failed-error-while-loading-annotatedelement-concurrentmap-charseq
These instructions promptly pointed me how to select the active java jdk for a bash session:
http://superuser.com/questions/490425/how-do-i-switch-between-java-7-and-java-6-on-os-x-10-8-2
Changed it to 1.7 and it all runs well now.